More money stays local with local businesses that are locally owned and operated. The chain stores provided low-income employment and export the money elsewhere -- to low-taxed investors and people like Romney. That is what happened to the money.

Yes.

But the average consumer doesn't give a flying fuck about any of that. All they care about is being able to stockpile their homes with more cheap shit from China, purchased at Walmart.

And more to the point, turning me into a nationwide tax collector isn't going to fix that.

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